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359E; ORNAMENT OF CARVED WOODEN ANIMAL HEAD TIED TO CIRCULAR BRANCH WITH HAIR ATTACHED; TLINGIT, CHILKAT--G.T. EMMONS, COLLECTOR.Information below on American Museum of Natural History records, etc. was provided by Allen Wardwell, 1988. This object has a number E359 written on it. This is an American Museum of Natural History number and indicates the object comes from George Thornton Emmons collection, #359, at the American Museum. According to Allen Wardwell, this object was collected by Emmons between 1884 and 1893 and acquired by the AMNH in 1893. Over the years, a number of objects have left the AMNH collection in various ways, and the AMNH has no records that the piece was lent or traded from the collection. This object does not seem to match any of the catalogued items listed as having been donated to the Smithsonian by the AMNH or by George Thornton Emmons. Emmons' catalogue entry for # 359 at the AMNH reads: "359 Wooden, ornamental portion of Doctor's dance headdress - "Take-cheany" from Kluck-qwan, "Chilkhart-qwan," the property of a Doctor, the carved wooden head, represents a land otter. Ornamentally painted in black and red."